Elizabeth McCracken Quotes

Humor reminds you, when you're flattened by sorrow, that you're still human.

Elizabeth McCracken

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• Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the middle of a table. This sort of shopping bag denotes prices that will start chipping into your children's college education fund. Avoid it.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Children
  • Education
  • College

• Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Eyes
  • Worst
  • Blind

• When I look back at where I came from, at the school I attended... my classmates for the most part haven't had successful paths - many have had a difficult, chaotic path.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • School
  • Path
  • Classmates

• Most police officers are good cops and good people.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Good
  • Police

• I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Writing
  • Reader

• The best way to hold a man is in your arms.

  

  Mae West
  • Man
  • Way
  • Best

• Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.

  

  Gary Burton
  • People
  • Time
  • Listening

• I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • History
  • End
  • Conflict

• Judges should interpret the law, not make it.

  

  Lamar S. Smith
  • Law
  • Should
  • Judges

• I'd love to play a Bond villain. Yeah, I'd love to play a Bond villain. Everyone always says this to me; they always say, 'You've got to be a Bond villain', 'We're going to make you a Bond villain...' But they've never, ever approached me, I've never had a whiff of it. I think I'd love to play a Bond villain; I'd have great fun.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Great
  • Love
  • Fun

• In domestic life, the woman's value is inherent, unquantifiable; at home she exchanges proven values for mythological ones. She 'wants' to be at home, and because she is a woman, she's allowed to want it. This desire is her mystique, it is both what enables her to domesticate herself and what disempowers her.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Life
  • Home
  • She

• I have employees that are, you know, other types of diversity, coming to me and saying 'Well, why aren't we focused on these other areas as well?' and I said yes, we should focus them, but, you know, the phrase we use internally is, 'If everything is important, then nothing is important.'

  

  Parker Harris
  • Important
  • Know
  • Focus

• You don't need to follow trends to be stylish.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • You
  • Need
  • Follow

• In the end, I need to be fulfilled in my work - that's more important than the money.

  

  T. R. Knight
  • Work
  • Important
  • Money

• Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.

  

  Van Wyck Brooks
  • People
  • True
  • Jealousy

• Unless you have a real passion for making movies, then don't bother. I had to carry energy and light into every meeting, only to be told, 'We don't want you.' I couldn't take it personally. You just have to wait, and live for those moments when the casting director likes you.

  

  Laura Harring
  • Live
  • Real
  • Energy

• I don't work for Donald Trump. I work with him. I work for the people who sent me up here. He ran on repealing and replacing Obamacare. Those people that put him and me in office expect us to repeal and replace Obamacare.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I think it's important for politicians to have moral qualities.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Important
  • Think
  • Moral

• When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Love
  • For Him
  • Qualities

• A significant event for me was learning Hank Williams, reconnecting with his music's simplicity, which inspired me to inhabit the same territory. It's different, because I grew up on Led Zeppelin, The Stooges and punk, so in that sense I'm mutating country and folk more than a few degrees.

  

  Stone Gossard Pearl Jam
  • Learning
  • Degrees
  • Punk

• I believe in free will. Of those that, like us, are in a privileged situation at least. For you, for me: people who are living in western society, people who are not repressed, who are free. We can choose. The things go largely like you want them to go. You control your own life. Your own will is extremely powerful.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.

  

  George Will
  • Politics
  • Politician
  • Accomplish

• Humor reminds you, when you're flattened by sorrow, that you're still human.

  

  Elizabeth McCracken